[NU Sports] hoops post mortem

[Brad Wilson]

The loss to Michigan State strikes me as an acceptable
effort against a superior team, even given the final
brain cramp (though perhaps a timeout was called for)?

But what strikes me about the box score is not the
rebounding deficit -- Princeton-style teams always get
outrebounded, even the very good ones -- but the
shooting percentages.

The whole idea of the Princeton system is to get
layups or open jump shots. Period. Thus you have to
shoot better than 19-for-44 as NU did Thursday.

And, again, the idea is to play tight defense that
frustrates the foe into bad shots. Michigan State shot
22-for-38. No team that plays NU's style and system
can win allowing teams to shoot that well from the
floor.

NU has more weaknesses than I can count, and Carmody's
comment that "we're far away but not that far away"
seems delusional to me for a team utterly dependent on
three-point shooting. 

But the first place to start is to take better shots
and play better defense. These are things that can be
done without NU landing 6-10 McDonald's All-Americans,
which, despite what some on this list seem to think,
isn't going to happen.

Brad Wilson  



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